Word: bossdom
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...Hinckley Simpson, 62, onetime (1926-28) Louisiana Governor, secretary of the State Senate (1908-24, 1932); of heart disease; in New Orleans. His sell-out to Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long in the three-cornered scramble for Governor in 1928 gave Long his real boost up to Governor, Louisiana's bossdom and the U. S. Senate...
...player and duck hunter, a successful and honest businessman, a philanthropist who gave away several hundred wooden legs*-he was sincerely mourned. The triumph of his career as boss came in 1923 when he put honest William Emmett Dever into Chicago's mayorship. In 1926, Brennan "bet his bossdom against a seat in the U. S. Senate that Illinois is sick of Prohibition"-and lost to Senator-eject Frank L. Smith...
Businessman-Boss Brennan is getting mellow. He is playing his last big game, "betting his bossdom against a seat in the U. S. Senate that Illinois is sick of prohibition." The voters perk up their ears and open their eyes. Now they can see how this backroom worker of cigar stores and old saloons performs. He feeds their curiosity with garrulous anecdotes, he says little of economic significances...
...Bonaparte then went on to cite the case of Baltimore with which he is personally familiar and where he has fought bossdom. "Praetorianism" is the system that served to continue bossdom in Baltimore, said Mr. Bonaparte, and the government there existing was distinctly oligarchical. Now, the oligarchy there has fallen, but the success of bossdom in New York warns us of danger. The great parties themselves are corrupt. Men do not get offices as rewards of merit. The remedy is right before us. The nation has made the civil service a breathing place for parasites. Restore this service...